Also, the German car industry’s woes have sucked up most of the attention. But another storm is brewing in machinery - the other core engine of Germany’s growth model.

Brutal chart from @noahbarkin.bsky.social and Gregor Williams. German exports to China grew for nearly two decades - and are now in free fall.

Applications to the LIS Introductory Workshop 2026 are now open! www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...

"Behind Closed Doors: Intra-Couple Pension and Wealth Gaps in Germany and Beyond" 🚪👩‍🦳👴 @lisdata.bsky.social / @liser.lu policy brief by @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and me out now! Read more here 👉 www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/n...

Looks like LinkedIn is the place to be? At least for me, right now, see you there & happy to connect 👋 (tried X, BlueSky, and Mastodon)

"Who Thrives and Who Falls Behind? Household Income Differences in Luxembourg and its Neighbouring Countries" ... and why we need more research on Luxembourg✍️☺️ www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/n...

New Capitalism II: Compositional vs income inequality Are all class-based societies unequal? branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...

My today's Substack: New Capitalism in America Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...

How does housing affect living standards in the UK? Our new interactive charts allow you to explore the status of affordability, supply and quality of British housing ⤵️ buff.ly/X5xMmnF

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Impôts et prestations: quels effets attendre d’une « année blanche »? Par @pmadec.bsky.social % au revenu, l'effet d'un gel est bien évidemment plus fort sur les ménages modestes (via les prestations) que sur un ménage médian (via l'IR) www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/blog2024/fr/...

The bottom two-fifths of the income distribution saw the biggest rise in essentials spending between the financial crisis and the pandemic Rising energy prices in particular have led to a ‘comfort crunch’ as families spend more of their budgets on essentials.

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Workshop on the economics of ageing and pensions tinyurl.com/2wez4wp7 Where? Berlin @wzb.bsky.social 🐻 When? November 20-21 November 🍂 For whom? Researchers at all stages in their career Anything else? Accomodation & travel cost will be covered 🚅🏨 Please circulate!

The typical pensioner and typical child’s household income were once very similar, but have diverged. In cash terms, the equivalised household income gap between pensioners and children has grown from roughly zero in the early 2000s to over £5,000 by 2023-24 and potentially over £7,000 by 2029-30.

1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time? I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

Interesting insights in the inflation crisis with latest #LISdata Danish incomes in real terms decreased massively in 2022 for all household types.

The bottom two-fifths of the income distribution saw the biggest rise in essentials spending between the financial crisis and the pandemic Rising energy prices in particular have led to a ‘comfort crunch’ as families spend more of their budgets on essentials.

Low-to-middle income families have been experiencing a 'comfort crunch', as they now spend more of their budgets on essentials, especially energy and food. Read more 👉 buff.ly/gXWlEGQ

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The Influence of Inheritances on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries" By @morellisal.bsky.social, Brian Nolan, @juancpal.bsky.social, & Philippe Van Kerm www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics #publicfinance

Very striking findings on the effect of divorce for men vs. women from a recent study, underlying data are administrative data from the Netherlands www.cpb.nl/sites/defaul...

It's a wrap! The 2025 meeting of LIS' governing body, where representatives from many countries assess past work, review current projects, and plan LIS' future. These meetings demonstrate the extraordinary power and potential of international cooperation. #42years @lisdata.bsky.social

Recently, we updated the World Bank’s global poverty measures – three big changes: (1) New survey data (especially for India) (2) Change to 2021 PPPs (3) New global poverty lines Blog: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/... Details: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0... [1/5]

'Changes in Private Pensions and Income Inequality in Retirement: A Decomposition Analysis by Income Source in Nine European Countries (1986–2018)' by Laure Doctrinal (2023) academic.oup.com/workar/artic...

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

How have pensioner incomes and poverty changed in recent years? ifs.org.uk/publications... via @theifs.bsky.social

🚨 Major release alert We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 — our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer 📦 🧵 1/12

🚨 New map features on @ourworldindata.org ! 🌍 OWID just rolled out upgrades to their data explorers—more intuitive, and easier to compare the LIS data. ourworldindata.org/new-features...

DIW Weekly Report 12/13 / 2025 'The Gender Pension Gap Grows the More Children a Woman Has' by Peter Haan, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Sarah Schmauk, Tatjana Mika www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

🖥️ LIS is happy to announce data updates: ▶️LIS Data • Austria – AT22 • Australia – AU20 • Brazil – Annualisation BR80-BR89 • Canada – CA21 • Greece – Annualisation GR02-GR21 • Norway – NO22 ▶️LWS Data • France – FR09/14/17/20 • Norway – NO22 • Slovenia – SI21 www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...

Wealth data on France available in LISSY! #LWSdata Find more data news here: www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve... #LISdata

Please circulate to anyone interested, we are looking for applications to our annual Summer Workshop! 🖥️

Memorable event in Luxembourg! Chico Ferreira & I had the pleasure of talking with @brankomilan.bsky.social about "Visions of #Inequality". Merci to our excellent hosts: @lisdata.bsky.social, @liser.lu, @uni.lu. Brilliant audience of about 150. @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

✨ The 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference – That’s a Wrap! ✨ On February 27-28, 2025, we gathered in Luxembourg for a thought-provoking exchange on comparative economic inequality, featuring cutting-edge research and discussions.

Great to have shared exciting progress on the upcoming Luxembourg Consumption Study (LCS) Database! It was fantastic to present the latest developments at this year's III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference in Luxembourg and discuss what is ahead... #LCSdata

Insights to German elections... www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

Latest income inequality estimates from the LIS Database. Find more indicators here: ▶️Inequality and Poverty Key Figures www.lisdatacenter.org/lis-ikf-weba... ▶️DART dart.lisdatacenter.org ▶️Our World in Data (OWID) inequality explorers www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/...

Deutschland braucht einen Kurswechsel in der #Migrationspolitik —— Ohne deutlich mehr Arbeitskräfte wird die wirtschaftliche #Transformation scheitern und viele Unternehmen werden insolvent gehen. 🧵 Meine neue Studie mit Sabine Zinn DIW Berlin: www.diw.de/documents/pu...

One reason why UK low-income households are especially poor (by intl. standards) is the cost of goods & services for this demographic. What’s behind this – and what should be done? @simonpittaway.bsky.social of @resfoundation.bsky.social explores #LSEInequalitiesBlog

NEW mapping tables at LIS! #LISdata #LWSdata #income / #consumption / #expenditure / #assets / #liabilities

Spain suffers from impressive, frightening low fertility in Spain, especially in its northwest rapidly aging territory. Portugal is not so bad.

🌍 Exciting Opportunities at LIS and LISER! LIS and @liserinlux.bsky.social are proud to announce the third call for two research initiatives: ▶️ Senior Fellowship ▶️ Research Stays www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...

Headline ineqaulity hasn't budged since the 1980s. So why are people talking about it more? It could be bc of widening wealth gaps. Right now, wealth is twice as unequally distributed as income. The wealth gap between the top and the middle of the distribution is17 per cent bigger than in 2006.

Registration for the 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference 2025 is open! Please find the conference agenda here: www.lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/u.... Note registration is mandatory (this is an in-person event only): form.jotform.com/243322120968.... @lseinequalities.bsky.social

On voit sur ces graphes le risque de pauvreté (à 60 % du revenu médian, voir ma vidéo dédiée) selon la composition familiale, dans divers pays. Les mères célibataires sont les + exposées, partout, tout le temps. Et on voit une spectaculaire stabilité en France.

ZEW-Gutachten über finanzielle Auswirkungen der Reformvorschläge der Parteien. Massive Ungleichheitseffekte. Die Steigerung der Armut bei den Rechten ist schon erstaunlich. Das muss man schon wollen. Der Geld-für-alle-Plan der Rechten ist natürlich nicht finanziert. ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs...

Le financement des retraite en France est mixte, impliquant une majorité de cotisations, mais également un co-financement de l'Etat, pour différentes raisons (retraites du public, mais pas que). C'est le cas, dans la plupart des pays étudiés dans cet article, y compris les pays "Bismarckiens".

LOL. @rcolvile.bsky.social's article claims (no link/evidence) "once you look at their overall income, British OAPs are pretty much bang on the international average." Helpfully, at bottom, the Times links to this chart from @tomcalver.bsky.social.. archive.ph/BFnCd#select...

First post on Bsky! Hello world! 👇Since December 2024 the LIS & LWS databases contain more than 1000 datasets. This enables research on more than 30 Mio. households and 90 Mio individuals. Explore our databases here: www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/ #LISdata #inequality #poverty #research